1. WikiLeaks’ latest release, if confirmed, appears certain to rock the technology world and deliver a serious blow to the C.I.A.

The so-called Vault 7 documents offer details of what are described as highly classified C.I.A. hacking tools used to break into smartphones and computers, turn Internet-connected TVs into spies and bypass encryption on messaging services like Signal, WhatsApp and Telegram.

WikiLeaks said the source of the leak was raising policy questions that “urgently need to be debated in public.”

The legislation would end mandated coverage but maintains many of the basic benefits that critics — including the Club for Growth, Heritage Action for America and the brothers Charles G. and David H. Koch’s Americans for Prosperity — see as warping the free market.

The sparring came at a Judiciary Committee hearing on Mr. Trump’s nominee to be deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein. He would oversee any such inquiry since Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself.

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4. In the Netherlands, there’s also concern about foreign influence in coming elections — by American money.

6. Mr. Trump’s revision of the U.S. program for refugees reduces the number the country will accept by more than half. This year’s arrivals already approach the new ceiling of 50,000.

Thousands of Central Americans seeking to escape brutal gang violence may not make the cut, like two girls in El Salvador who saw their grandparents gunned down and who are themselves being hunted.

“We got a call last weekend telling us that they’d find us under whatever rock we were hiding,” their aunt said.

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7. And some migrants in the U.S. are trying to make their way out.

People from Yemen, Turkey and elsewhere have been streaming through a small town in upstate New York en route to Canada, driven by anxieties over the travel ban, anti-Muslim sentiment and frustration over the immigration process.

It’s almost impossible to apply for asylum at border posts, so they slip by to get arrested on Canadian soil and try their luck from inside Canada’s legal system.